lunes, 13 de agosto de 2007

Terrorism in Northern Africa:

How Terrorism is defined?
In any dictionary terrorism is meant as any sort of violent action for political purposes. This concept is not far away from Northern Africa’s reality. Countries such as Morocco, Mauritia, and Argelia are the main training centres for jihadists who recruited themselves as volunteers. In the past 12, April, Two suicide attacks hit the Moroccan city of Casablanca. Why are these attacks also perpetrating in an Islamic region? And what for?
The whole world’s security had been tested and thereafter, shaken after September 11, the bombing in the UK and then the attack on the Spaniard’s rail ways. The responsible were activists from the group Al-Qaeda and some religious fanatics. The ones committing suicide in Morocco belong to the extremist group known as the Salafist group for Preaching and Combat which has recently joined to Al-Qaeda to fight against the Pro-US government in the region. The GSPC are not the only ones who share the same anti-American ideology. Groups like Amsar Almehdi, the Islamic Salvation front (ISF) and many others but fewer as regards membership are also involved in many attacks against the USA and European targets. The ISF led Argelia to insurgency since 1992 when the army cancelled any sort of participation in elections of this Islamist party are also involved in many attacks against the USA. Furthermore, the whole picture got even worse after the Bejaia Operation, led by the USA and Local government, in which important leaders of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb were surrounded. The local government granting of pardon leaves the door open to new terrorists’ attacks. And finally the lack of identity perceived in many young men and women who had left their respective countries to study in Europe where they feel to belong to nowhere. All the information mentioned carries on an increase of Al Qaeda’s power and ideology. Al Qaeda is a net of network. What’s that? Al-Qaeda has the support of almost every Islamic country without considering those living in the “Crusaders’ countries”. The young people living abroad, in Europe and the USA are the majority of the recruiters for immolation and mass attacks. What’s more in Morocco and Algiers he police and armed forces are also involved with suicide bombing. Yet, Morocco’s governmental worry is to stop with the rumours of such dangerous relations between power and terrorism. That’s what, Morocco’s government abolished the obligatory military service so as to deny the chance extremists had to learn about weapons at the expense of the state.
All in all, northern Africa has increased the number of “succuessful2 terrorists. Well trained and communicated among their terrorist cells, the Salifi extremists are some of the products of history and political aspects. Yet, it must be said that they are responsible for the decreasing of respect and prestige of more than one billion Muslims living all around the world.





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